corniest selection on the ringer's "40 best songs of 1999"

xp Post fail! hit submit by mistake, should read as:

'...one too many 'blasting John Peel out of the kitchen door at unsuspecting customers' incident , and as a result..'

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and 'At the time, Cardiff was under the grip of Hard House / Trance fever, however I feel that the rich seam of gorgonzola that was 1999 pop-trance is missing from this list completely:

DJ Sakin - Protect Your Mind (For The Love Of A Princess)
Phats & Small - Turn Around
ATB - 9 PM (Till I Come)
Planet Perfecto - Bullet In The Gun'

All of these hit the UK charts and were ripe cheese that would get my vote.

Impossible to pick - this my core, heart music.

― flappy bird, Tuesday, July 30, 2019 1:06 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

extremely otm. scanning this list is taking me back to the summer after 6th grade--childhood's end, really--only the good memories remain now. scar tissue alone, wow... say what? karaoke on mtv. that don't impress me much desert leopard print. billy shakespeare wrote a whole lotta sonnets. all that glitters is gold...

it's not right, but it's ok :(

9PM Til I Come is as close as I come to heart corn from this era

kinda reminds me of Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

whoa now frogbs no need to bring sam into this

The fact that 9PM Til I Come isn't here invalidates the entire list. In general the UK and US felt miles apart musically around this time (maybe Europe and the US) but the lack of any chart trance or garage in here really shows quite how divergent the charts were.

As much as I love 9PM I can understand it not being on here, especially in its single mix.

Saltwater, on the other hand...

Will Smith - "Miami" will forever be tied in my mind to the statewide trauma of the 1998 NFC Championship thanks to this Vikings version of MIami done by KDWB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMk1qffPNM

party in the Cities where the heat is on
Denny Green runnin' things in the Metrodome
and we're going to Miami

Bouncin' in the Cities with the purple and gold
Got your football senses on overload
and we're going to Miami

After checking what hard house / trance cheese hit the top 10 over here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UK_top-ten_singles_in_1999), and giving all the filter disco influenced stuff a pass of 'just about acceptable', if this poll was UK based it would need:

Porn Kings Vs. DJ Supreme - Up To the Wildstyle
Vengaboys - We Like to Party / Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom / We're Going to Ibiza / Kiss (When the Sun Don't Shine)
Yomanda - Synth & Strings
Alice DeeJay - Better Off Alone / Back in My Life
DJ Jean - The Launch
Eiffel 65 - Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Ann Lee - 2 Times
Wamdue Project - King of My Castle
Mario Piu - Communication (Somebody Answer the Phone)
William Orbit - Barber's Adagio for Strings

Quite impressed that Flat Beat made it to number 1 tbh

giving all the filter disco influenced stuff a pass of 'just about acceptable'

I give it all an A+

OMG 'Flat Beat', forgot all about that song. The video was like the funniest thing in the world to me for probably like a day and a half.

started to read the Ringer article but couldn't get through it cuz all the writers sound suspiciously like Bill Simmons (name a song off Christina's last 3 albums. You can't!!). but there is a good point in there about how 1999 was the last time we, as a nation, really felt optimism...before Florida & the Hanging Chads, before 9/11, before Iraq, and all *gestures vaguely* this

Yeah Y2K really should've fulfilled its apocalyptic promise.

In a sense, it kinda did?

Well, it sure is taking its damn time.

Quite impressed that Flat Beat made it to number 1 tbh

Being in a Levi's ad got Babylon Zoo and Stiltskin to #1 as well so it's not that much of a surprise. Flat Beat has aged way better than either of those as well.

first Mr Oizo LP is excellent too

i dont think will smith's 'miami' is that corny really. big willie style is the last time he could get away w/ non corny records (altho 'just the 2 of us' is pretty oversentimental)

It was an old millenium, no excuse me, willenium

the spanish lyrics on miami are corny as fuck

spanish lyrics in miami vs spanish lyrics in beck songs

soy un maíz-idor

I believe you mean 'so open the door'

Will Smith - "Miami" will forever be tied in my mind to the statewide trauma of the 1998 NFC Championship thanks to this Vikings version of MIami done by KDWB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbMk1qffPNM

party in the Cities where the heat is on
Denny Green runnin' things in the Metrodome
and we're going to Miami

Bouncin' in the Cities with the purple and gold
Got your football senses on overload
and we're going to Miami

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, August 1, 2019 5:54 AM (four hours ago)

laughing my ass off at this

it's amazing

I, too, laughed my ass of at that. Everything about it. I laugh at the Vikings and their fans pretty frequently tbh.

thats mean

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

another station-produced parody of "miami"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqiSxNyK0MM

Maybe 1999 isn't corny, but rather the list-making people are just bad at making lists.

"hooch" is summer 98, why is it discussed here

Okay the corniest selection here is def "24. Blackstreet - "Take Me There" ft. Mya, Ma$e & Blinky Blink"

Since it's blackstreet who would ever believe this is actually cornier than "All Star" but it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEpiB8AfSao

Also this is what the music in every Target commercial sounds like now

that song is cute & fun

Movie Soundtrack from Rugrats The Movie

OHHHHHHHHHHHHH right

thank god I was an adult in 1999

also that LFO song is the worst

hah I wonder if Mark Mothersbaugh got a big royalty check for that one

God Didn't Spend Nearly Enough Time on You

lol

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Len - Steal My Sunshine 2

you fools

two motherfuckers tried to steal my sunshine

for some reason I heard "Tender" in a bar at the weekend and there is not enough contempt for that godawful week-long dirge here. seriously personally offended that The Thong Song got more votes than it

also add me to the list of people who never, uh, got "You Get What You Give"

PS "Steal My Sunshine" is great of course

"hooch" is summer 98, why is it discussed here

― billstevejim, Monday, August 5, 2019 11:11 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

This is why it finally received its own (semi-)dedicated thread.

The crazy town is obv the best

oopa wrong thread ... although sort of the right thread

i wouldn't have put it past these listmakers to have deemed "butterfly" a 1999 song